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A Quality and Cost Approach for Comparison of Small-World Networks
We propose an approach based on analysis of cost-quality tradeoffs for
comparison of efficiency of various algorithms for small-world network
construction. A number of both known in the literature and original algorithms
for complex small-world networks construction are shortly reviewed and
compared. The networks constructed on the basis of these algorithms have basic
structure of 1D regular lattice with additional shortcuts providing the
small-world properties. It is shown that networks proposed in this work have
the best cost-quality ratio in the considered class.Comment: 27 pages, 16 figures, 1 tabl
An Optimal Control Model of Technology Transition
This paper discusses the use of optimization software to solve an optimal control problem arising in the modeling of technology transition. We set up a series of increasingly complex models with such features as learning-by-doing, adjustment cost, and capital investment. The models are written in continuous time and then discretized by using different methods to transform them into large-scale nonlinear programs. We use a modeling language and numerical optimization methods to solve the optimization problem. Our results are consistent with ndings in the literature and highlight the impact the discretization choice has on the solution and accuracy.
Methodical Approach to the Supply Chain Strategy Development for Large Enterprises Based on a Balanced Indicator System
The article describes a methodological approach to the supply chain strategy development, consisting of seven stages and allowing taking into account the specific nature of the activities of large enterprises. This approach includes one of the most important stages in the supply chain strategy development, that is, its evaluation. Many authors exclude this stage during consideration. The use of a balanced indicator system (hereinafter - the BIS) in the supply chain strategy development for the enterprise allows taking into account a greater number of performance indicators for a detailed analysis of a large enterprise, which helps to identify problem areas in their activities in exchange. The article presents the developed methodology for assessing the effectiveness of the supply chain strategy for large enterprises based on the BIS: we improved the traditional performance indicators and developed additional indicators within each prospect of the modified BIS. The author’s methodology includes the development of integrated indicators of the effectiveness of the supply chain strategy based on expert assessment, with the help of which the supply chain strategy is evaluated from the perspective of all the prospects considered within the framework of the modified BIS
On observation of position in quantum theory
Newtonian and Scroedinger dynamics can be formulated in a physically meaningful way within the same Hilbert space framework. This fact was recently used to discover an unexpected relation between classical and quantum motions that goes beyond the results provided by the Ehrenfest theorem. A formula relating the normal probability distribution and the Born rule was also found. Here the dynamical mechanism responsible for the latter formula is proposed and applied to measurements of macroscopic and microscopic systems. A relationship between the classical Brownian motion and the diffusion of state on the space of states is discovered. The role of measuring devices in quantum theory is investigated in the new framework. It is shown that the so-called collapse of the wave function is not measurement specific and does not require a ``concentration" near the eigenstates of the measured observable. Instead, it is explained by the common diffusion of a state over the space of states under interaction with the apparatus and the environment.
This in turn provides us with a basic reason for the definite position of macroscopic bodies in space
CompHEP-PYTHIA interface: integrated package for the collision events generation based on exact matrix elements
CompHEP, as a partonic event generator, and PYTHIA, as a generator of final
states of detectable objects, are interfaced. Thus, integrated tool is proposed
for simulation of (almost) arbitrary collision processes at the level of
detectable particles. Exact (multiparticle) matrix elements, convolution with
structure functions, decays, partons hadronization and (optionally) parton
shower evolution are basic stages of calculations. The PEVLIB library of event
generators for LHC processes is described.Comment: Standard LaTeX, 4 pages. To appear in the proceedings of the Seventh
International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Technics in Physics
Research (ACAT2000, Fermilab, October 16-20, 2000
Effects of cluster diffusion on the island density and size distribution in submonolayer island growth
The effects of cluster diffusion on the submonolayer island density and
island-size distribution are studied for the case of irreversible growth of
compact islands on a 2D substrate. In our model, we assume instantaneous
coalescence of circular islands, while the cluster mobility is assumed to
exhibit power-law decay as a function of island-size with exponent mu. Results
are presented for mu = 1/2, 1, and 3/2 corresponding to cluster diffusion via
Brownian motion, correlated evaporation-condensation, and edge-diffusion
respectively, as well as for higher values including mu = 2,3, and 6. We also
compare our results with those obtained in the limit of no cluster mobility
corresponding to mu = infinity. In agreement with theoretical predictions of
power-law behavior of the island-size distribution (ISD) for mu < 1, for mu =
1/2 we find Ns({\theta}) ~ s^{-\tau} (where Ns({\theta}) is the number of
islands of size s at coverage {\theta}) up to a cross-over island-size S_c.
However, the value of {\tau} obtained in our simulations is higher than the
mean-field (MF) prediction {\tau} = (3 - mu)/2. Similarly, the value of the
exponent {\zeta} corresponding to the dependence of S_c on the average
island-size S (e.g. S_c ~ S^{\zeta}) is also significantly higher than the MF
prediction {\zeta} = 2/(mu+1). A generalized scaling form for the ISD is also
proposed for mu < 1, and using this form excellent scaling is found for mu =
1/2. However, for finite mu >= 1 neither the generalized scaling form nor the
standard scaling form Ns({\theta}) = {\theta} /S^2 f(s/S) lead to scaling of
the entire ISD for finite values of the ratio R of the monomer diffusion rate
to deposition flux. Instead, the scaled ISD becomes more sharply peaked with
increasing R and coverage. This is in contrast to models of epitaxial growth
with limited cluster mobility for which good scaling occurs over a wide range
of coverages.Comment: 12 pages, submitted to Physical Review
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